# Enterprise architecture and AI strategy, built to survive contact with the real business.

Architecting AI ambition into enterprise reality.

18 years turning Architecture, AI, Data, Platform Engineering and Product Management strategies into shipped value.

Felipe Tavares is a senior enterprise and business architecture leader with 18 years across trading, banking, consulting and manufacturing industries. The consistent thread: translating complex trade and operational processes into defensible target architectures, and, increasingly, turning AI and data strategy into measurable business value. He leads in a global matrix and has moved architecture from gatekeeping to orchestrator and hands-on delivery.

## Credibility

- Directly led multiple engineering, architecture and product teams, each with its own lead
- Led hundreds of people across teams through a matrix operating model
- 18 years across trading, banking, consulting and manufacturing industries
- Moved architecture from gatekeeping to orchestrator and hands-on delivery

## Domains of expertise

- **AI & Agentic Engineering:** Built the business case for 8-figure AI and data value in commodity trading, shipping AI-augmented architecture platforms hands-on.
- **Enterprise & Business Architecture:** Leads a central architecture function: authored the Architecture Guiding Principles and architect behaviour model across a federated global org.
- **Data Architecture & Engineering:** Architected the future-state of an 8-figure enterprise data platform (lakehouse, streaming, API-first), now underpinning trading domains.
- **Cloud & Platform Architecture:** Drives a Platform-as-a-Product operating model on AWS: golden paths, IaC and Policy as Code, a Terraform pipeline catalogue.
- **Integration Architecture:** Defined the enterprise future-state event-driven, API-led integration architecture and leads its adoption across global trading programs.
- **Digital Strategy & IT Strategy:** Sets technology strategy for complex, regulated domains, including a multi-vendor buy-versus-build assessment for commodity trading systems.
- **Data Management & Analytics:** Delivered data products credited with a double-digit-million revenue uplift, plus multi-million-dollar cost reductions across the product-data estate.
- **Software & Agentic Engineering:** Builds hands-on: an in-house AI-augmented architecture platform that auto-assembles context for delivery teams and AI coding assistants.
- **SAP Delivery, Strategy & Architecture:** Led SAP S/4HANA business architecture and order-to-cash transformations, cutting the cost of a heavily customized system by half.
- **Portfolio & Program Management:** Management-team member on a 9-figure cloud migration program, with functional direction across a large architecture and engineering organization.
- **Product Management & Agile Delivery:** SCRUM and SAFe practitioner, CSPO and CSM certified. Brought agile delivery discipline to ERP/treasury and architecture operating models.
- **Technology Leadership & Org Design:** Directly led multiple engineering, architecture and product teams, each with its own lead, and hundreds more through a federated, matrix operating model.

## Featured projects

- [Selfwright](/projects/selfwright) — An open-core, local-first personal operating system for career, expertise, influence, and knowledge.
- [felipetavares.dev](/projects/felipetavares-dev) — This site, engineered like a product — not a template.